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Title: Misora Hibari - Yawara
Source: YouTube
URL Source: http://youtube.com/watch?v=lKpfrv7cQb0
Published: May 26, 2007
Author: Koga Masao
Post Date: 2007-05-26 17:49:38 by Peetie Wheatstraw
Ping List: *Music Club*
Keywords: None
Views: 782
Comments: 29

An even better version of "Yawara" ("Judo," but as a metaphor for the "judo" of love: "Don't think you're going to win [in the game of love]," goes the first line, "If you think like that, you're gonna lose..."), with lilting grace notes so distinctive of Japanese enka, is here.

Misora Hibari - Kanashii Sake [Sad Sake]

(Ignore the gab-fest for the first 1:30 of the video)

[My translation] The sake I'm drinking all alone at a bar
Tastes like my tears at our parting
As I drink, the face of the guy I want to forget
Keeps floating around in my glass
"I'm happier by myself,"
I say to myself as I weep
Still loving the man who's no longer at my side
My night of tears and sorrow grows long...

Poster Comment:

Misora Hibari (born Kazue Kato) is the queen of Japanese torch singers, of a style of singing known as enka. She started her career at age 11 in 1948, and was much beloved in Japan for the role she played in raising the spirits there with her singing after Japan's catastrophic defeat. She died in 1989.

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#1. To: Peetie Wheatstraw (#0)

Great videos.

According to wiki she recorded "Yawara" in 1964 and "Kanashii Sake" in 1966.

I can certainly understand what her voice meant to those conquered people. She is a source of great pride even now I'm sure.

HOUNDDAWG  posted on  2007-05-27   17:10:14 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

According to wiki she recorded "Yawara" in 1964

The first line of "Yawara" seemed familiar--Katsu to omou na, omoeba make yo- -, so I consulted Ivan Morris' The Nobility of Failure: Tragic Heroes in the History of Japan---the last chapter in the book about the WW II Kamikaze pilots.

Sure enough, there again was the first line of the song: Never think of winning! Thoughts of victory will only bring defeat... from a popular song of the kamikaze.

Puissent tous les hommes se souvenir qu'ils sont frères!

Peetie Wheatstraw  posted on  2007-05-27   17:41:42 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

In keeping with the diversity theme, I offer you Paul Robeson, "That's why darkies were born" followed by Midnight in Moscow in A-minor.

Jethro Tull  posted on  2007-05-27   17:58:43 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

the diversity theme

Dawg, can you play like this? JT, can you move your butt like this? :P

Star - Valala-misapingo [Madagascar "tsapiky" guitar]

Puissent tous les hommes se souvenir qu'ils sont frères!

Peetie Wheatstraw  posted on  2007-05-27   18:26:53 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

He was a commie! ;)

He sang for da man but spoke for the workers!

Makes me proud to be an American! ;)

HOUNDDAWG  posted on  2007-05-27   18:33:28 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

Jethro Tull  posted on  2007-05-27   18:43:49 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

He sang for da man but spoke for the workers!

Makes me proud to be an American! ;)

Sniff, sniff...Hownddawg! ..Who were his fairer skinned directors with a post-slave name like Robeson and the corruptors of original capitalism?

Whose century was the 20ths...and looking to fade in the 21st?

“Yes, but is this good for Jews?"

Eoghan  posted on  2007-05-27   18:52:38 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

Shina Peters - Afro Juju

Puissent tous les hommes se souvenir qu'ils sont frères!

Peetie Wheatstraw  posted on  2007-05-27   19:06:17 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

Hillarious !! I hope the Jewish writers and director behind the camera didn't have had too many re-takes with laughs out loud and ruining the shots...

G-d Bless Talmudic stoicism for not wasting too much film reel space. ;)

“Yes, but is this good for Jews?"

Eoghan  posted on  2007-05-27   19:06:23 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

Vusi Mahlasela~ when you come back

Zipporah  posted on  2007-05-27   19:15:33 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

Manizha Davlatova - Toyi Bakshandayi Koli Gonahami*

Puissent tous les hommes se souvenir qu'ils sont frères!

Peetie Wheatstraw  posted on  2007-05-27   19:36:00 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

"Eyes about to preform a nickelectomy"....(gotta love it, but is it good for the Jews?)

Jethro Tull  posted on  2007-05-27   19:36:18 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

very nice.. but what does it mean :P *

Zipporah  posted on  2007-05-27   19:40:18 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

very nice.. but what does it mean :P *

Good question :P **

Puissent tous les hommes se souvenir qu'ils sont frères!

Peetie Wheatstraw  posted on  2007-05-27   19:43:58 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

LOL~! And here I was all ready for some sweet romantic reply~ you shoulda made something up :P ***

Zipporah  posted on  2007-05-27   19:48:12 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

LOL~! And here I was all ready for some sweet romantic reply ;) ***

Well, it's hard to both be romantic and comply with the rigors of "diversity"... :P

I figured the exotic strains of Manizha's lilting Tadzhiki verses and the pounding percussionist accompaniment would have a language all its own.. ;)

Puissent tous les hommes se souvenir qu'ils sont frères!

Peetie Wheatstraw  posted on  2007-05-27   19:54:54 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

Well, it's hard to both be romantic and comply with the rigors of "diversity"... :P

I figured the exotic strains of Manizha's lilting Tadzhiki verses and the pounding percussionist accompaniment would have a language all its own.. ;)

well now that you put it that way .. uh huh ;)

Zipporah  posted on  2007-05-27   20:00:05 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

BTW, you notice that the video appears to be from a broadcast from Kazakhstan--- not Borat's bullshit "Kazakhstan," but the real one.

Puissent tous les hommes se souvenir qu'ils sont frères!

Peetie Wheatstraw  posted on  2007-05-27   20:03:28 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

There is a real one ? :P

Zipporah  posted on  2007-05-27   20:06:18 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

well now that you put it that way .. uh huh ;)

Sorta like that Persian dude Omar Khayyam: all he needed was some bread, some wine, some poetry, some shade, and a chick with a good singing voice with him out in some secluded spot. ;)

A Book of Verses underneath the Bough,
A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread - and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness-
Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!**

Puissent tous les hommes se souvenir qu'ils sont frères!

Peetie Wheatstraw  posted on  2007-05-27   20:08:56 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

There is a real one ? :P

Puissent tous les hommes se souvenir qu'ils sont frères!

Peetie Wheatstraw  posted on  2007-05-27   20:11:40 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

Omar Khayyam wrote some .. well interesting poetry.. kinda like the Persian Barry White? :P

Zipporah  posted on  2007-05-27   20:15:04 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

Well I'll be ;) **

Zipporah  posted on  2007-05-27   20:15:45 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

Omar Khayyam wrote some .. well interesting poetry.. kinda like the Persian Barry White? :P

Kinda hedonistic...kinda "this world-ly"... Lots of references to wine in his verses.. :P

Of course, we owe a lot of our impressions of Omar Khayyam to his Victorian era translator Edward Fitzgerald, who admired Khayyam as a fellow non- conformist. His translation is itself a work of art.

Puissent tous les hommes se souvenir qu'ils sont frères!

Peetie Wheatstraw  posted on  2007-05-27   20:21:36 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

Kinda hedonistic...kinda "this world-ly"... Lots of references to wine in his verses.. :P

Not exactly muslim in nature..

Zipporah  posted on  2007-05-27   20:35:25 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

Dr.Ron Paul for President

Lod  posted on  2007-05-27   21:00:32 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

Youze guyz R funny!

HOUNDDAWG  posted on  2007-05-27   22:58:29 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

Eyes about to preform a nickelectomy"

The old Vaudeville joke of the Jew at the wake...the last guy to pay his respects...the nickels are pocketed for a dime.

“Yes, but is this good for Jews?"

Eoghan  posted on  2007-05-27   23:06:18 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

I can certainly understand what her voice meant to those conquered people. She is a source of great pride even now I'm sure.

Watch her as a child singing and dancing in war devastated Tokyo in Tokyo Kid in 1950, and as a fun- loving teen-ager in 1955 in Janken Musume (the one on the left with the yellow top; "janken" is sort of like our "Rock, Paper, Scissors" and "musume" means "girls").

Puissent tous les hommes se souvenir qu'ils sont frères!

Peetie Wheatstraw  posted on  2007-05-29   22:37:52 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

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